Bob White, an attorney with Gunster’s Technology & Entrepreneurial Companies practice, was interviewed for a discussion about whether Facebook’s proposed site governance changes matter.
Facebook’s current voting system requires 30 percent of all users to participate in order for the vote to be binding. With approximately 1 billion users worldwide, this would mean requiring 300 million people to vote on any particular issue.
White told Upstart business journal the current voting system is ineffectual and inefficient, given that Facebook has so many users.
Read the entire article: Do Facebook’s proposed site governance changes even matter? (Upstart business journal, 12/7/12)
(Note: Voting on how Facebook shares user info and handles email closed December 10. Facebook went ahead with its proposed changes, despite receiving less than 300 million votes. Read more: Facebook ignores ‘minimal’ user vote, adopts new privacy policy (NBC News Technology, 12/11/12)
